A new Scottish drink?

[Iain MacLean - Presenter] Now, if you are taking a drink at this time of the year maybe you you’ll understand that there is more choice than there was in the type of drink that you can get. Among them is different types of gin. With Scotland selling 70% of gin in Britain, it would appear that the market is growing. Here’s Maggie MacKinnon.

[Maggie MacKinnon – Reporter] Distilleries are very common all over the Highlands. But, if you thought that you knew with certainty what was inside, you might be wrong. More often now, it is not just whisky that comes from these buildings, but another drink which people are getting very fond of – gin.

[Simon Buley] A lot of whisky distilleries you’ll find do make vodkas, gins, what we call white spirits, basically because there is no waiting, it’s make it today, sell it tomorrow, you know, so it gives us that bit of cash flow to keep us able to make the premium whiskies etc that we make.

[Maggie MacKinnon – Reporter] It is the plants that go into ‘Caorunn’ that makes it special. They grow close to the distillery and Simon reaps them himself. He still gets used with the difference between making gin and whisky.

[Simon Buley] I’m used to what I make going in the barrel for at least three years and aging. A whisky distillery isn’t a fast-paced place to work, you know. What we make takes a long time to mature, etc. Whereas now, I’m making gin and it’s in the bottle tomorrow, the day after I’ve made it. Whereas the whisky I’ve made in the last nearly sixteen years is still not available for people to enjoy.

[Maggie MacKinnon – Reporter] Two thousand miles south in North Berwick, a new gin went on the market by a couple who were looking for something to run together. They did lots of research and bought a distillery and they started to sell it in October. They could not believe how it well it is doing.

[Viv Muir] It’s been overwhelming. We thought we would edge into the market in North Berwick, in our home town and we’ re now sitting with over forty customers nationwide, all over Scotland and sold over a thousand bottles. The response has been so overwhelming that we feel we can go to the global market. We’ve been approached by a potential exporter and they’re looking for premium Scottish products of which our gin is one.

[Murdo Campbell] Something that has changed, maybe, from the big companies that were doing it for a long time, they are putting different things in it today and they did it better than big companies and they are better at doing it than the big companies. The big companies do it through marketing and they sell it to people as that. But the smaller companies do it with gin, they do it in an unique way where the taste is a lot betterand they sell better because of it.

[Maggie MacKinnon – Reporter] For years, whisky gets priority in the drinks market, but it would appear that Scottish gin is not far behind. Maggie MacKinnon, BBC An Là.

Deoch ùr Albannach?

(A new Scottish drink?)

VocabularyBriathrachas

miadhail - fond

lusan - plants

taigh-staile - distillery

margaidheachd - marketing

prìomhachas - priority

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